Truman and Civil Rights
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- Truman and Civil Rights
- The impact of WW2
- Blk ppl migrated from the south to the north to work in the defence industry
- "demand for labour forced them to accept AAs"- Reynolds
- blks and yts had to mix due to living proximity
- increase in black consciousness led to an increase in activism
- NAACP membership went from 50K to 450K
- black veterans offered more with the G.I. Bill
- 1956- 2.2M veterans used the G.I. Bill
- Blk ppl migrated from the south to the north to work in the defence industry
- Campaign for civil rights
- CORE 1947
- led by James Farmer
- organised wartime sit- ins
- organised the 'Journey of Reconciliation' to test the S.C ruling against interstate transport segregation
- NAACP
- worked to erode litigation e.g. Plessy v. Ferguson
- CORE 1947
- Federal and State responses
- Supreme Court
- eroded discriminatory constitutional foundations
- Truman
- requested civil rights legislation in Congress
- established Liberal Committee in '47 which called for an end to lynching, poll tax
- issued Executive Orders to end discrimination in the army
- States and Local Govt
- 11 states had fair employment laws
- 19 states had some legislation against discrimination
- Supreme Court
- the position of AAs in '45
- education
- Illiteracy @ 11% in black schls in '45
- voting
- Georgia 1946- 5 blk ppl were killed for trying to vote
- housing
- Chicago Riot 1947- yt ppl trying to stop blk ppl from moving to yt neighbourhoods
- segragation
- 1945- '51: 11 states and 28 cities enacted FEPC
- education
- The impact of WW2
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